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Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article
Quenivet, N., Dadomo, C., & Tava, F. (in press). Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 56,

Over the past decades, a logic of border control and securitization, a combination of legal, political and social elements and factors, has developed in European States. The 2015 migration crisis has only exacerbated this negative approach towards mi... Read More about Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union.

Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021) (2023)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2023). Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021). Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 54(4), 376-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2023.2229869

This review article analyses the topic of phenomenological Marxism, examining its historical formulations, critical contributions, and contemporary re-enactments. It begins with an overview of the works of Enzo Paci and the Milan school of phenomenol... Read More about Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021).

Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity (2023)
Journal Article
Russo, M., & Tava, F. (2023). Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 54(3), 234-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2023.2197952

This article analyses Sartre's conflicting interpretations of human relationality in Critique of Dialectical Reason and Hope Now in order to demostrate two things. First, that the social dynamics leading to the formation of what Sartre calls “fused g... Read More about Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity.

Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare (2023)
Journal Article
Kerasidou, C. X., Malone, M., Daly, A., & Tava, F. (2023). Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(12), 838-843. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108696

Digitalisation of health and the use of health data in artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML), including for applications that will then in turn be used in healthcare are major themes permeating current UK and other countries' healthcare... Read More about Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare.

Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities (2021)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2021). Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities. Phenomenology and Mind, 20, 118-126. https://doi.org/10.17454/pam-2010

This paper provides an account of the challenges and potentialities of a solidarity-based approach to data access and governance. To do that, it offers an infraethical understanding of solidarity that describes it as a structural moral enabler that c... Read More about Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities.

Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka (2021)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2022). Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 53(4), 370-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2021.2015697

The aim of this article is to shed light on the reflections that Czech Marxist philosopher Karel Kosík dedicated to literature, and particularly to the writings of Franz Kafka, from the 1960s to the 1990s. More specifically, this article clarifies wh... Read More about Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka.

The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question (2021)
Journal Article
Meacham, D., & Tava, F. (2021). The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question. Philosophy Today, 65(3), 571-598. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2021519408

This paper examines, both historically and conceptually the development and technological mediation of the concept of solidarity. We argue for both an emphasis on the workplace as the locus of solidarity relations and for a phenomenological approach... Read More about The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question.

Justice, emotions, and solidarity (2021)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2023). Justice, emotions, and solidarity. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 26(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1893251

This paper discusses Habermas’s argument that justice requires solidarity as its ‘reverse side’, whereby the former provides the necessary global framework for establishing intersubjective solidarity whilst the latter constitutes an important precond... Read More about Justice, emotions, and solidarity.

Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology (2020)
Journal Article
Meacham, D., & Tava, F. (2021). Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology. Studies in East European Thought, 73, 309–326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-020-09398-8

This article examines the relation between two key, but seemingly opposed concepts in Jan Patočka’s thought: epoché and the concrete institutional polis. In doing so it attempts to elucidate the inextricable relation between phenomenology and politic... Read More about Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology.

Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology (2018)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2018). Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology. Metodo, 6(2), 71-98

The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka’s philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology.

Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna (2018)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2018). Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna

The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka's philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna.

The brave struggle: Jan Patočka on Europe’s past and future (2016)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2016). The brave struggle: Jan Patočka on Europe’s past and future. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 47(3), 242-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2016.1180854

© 2016 The British Society for Phenomenology. This article proposes to investigate Jan Patočka’s idea of “postEurope”, in the context of his understanding of European contemporary history. Therefore, I first stress how important it is for Patočka to... Read More about The brave struggle: Jan Patočka on Europe’s past and future.

Facing global crises after Europe: Between philosophy and politics (2016)
Journal Article
Caminada, E., & Tava, F. (2016). Facing global crises after Europe: Between philosophy and politics

Introduction to the issue of Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 'Facing Global Crises After Europe: Between Philosophy and Politics'.

Lifeworld, civilisation, system: Patočka and Habermas on Europe and its crisis (2016)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2016). Lifeworld, civilisation, system: Patočka and Habermas on Europe and its crisis. Horizon: Fenomenologičeskie Issledovaniâ, 5(1), 70-89. https://doi.org/10.18199/2226-5260-2016-5-1-70-89

© FRANCESCO TAVA, 2016. The aim of this article is to show how both Jan Patočka and Jürgen Habermas, starting from a reinterpretation of the idea of «lifeworld», engaged a critique of modern civilisation, aiming (with different outcomes) at a redefin... Read More about Lifeworld, civilisation, system: Patočka and Habermas on Europe and its crisis.